Thought about a Qt port

Thiago Macieira thiago at macieira.org
Sun Mar 31 10:25:59 PDT 2013


On domingo, 31 de março de 2013 16.00.29, Lubomir I. Ivanov wrote:
> this way, if the config gets huge or complicated at some point i can
> just copy the .ini file from an OSX box to a Linux box and it will
> "just work"?

Yes, it should "just work" in that case.

> i side question, we also load/store a file to the application data
> folder (on Windows that is SHGetFolderPath(NULL, CSIDL_APPDATA, ...)
> or e.g "user/appData/roaming/subsurface/"). so what should be used
> here in a portable manner - QDesktopServices::DataLocation?

QDesktopServices::DataLocation is CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA on Windows. There's 
nothing that uses CSIDL_APPDATA directly.

On Mac, it translates to 
	FSFindFolder(kUserDomain, kApplicationSupportFolderType, ...)

On Linux, it will be $HOME/.local/share.
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